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It's dopey to mess with laws on drugs

Most mornings when I walk out of Tara Street Dart station, I am confronted by a large group of people openly buying and selling drugs. Like all successful entrepreneurs, they have carefully selected this business location. They have chosen to trade here because of its infrastructural links, its young customer base, its highly competitive environment and its unique vantage point (you can see people coming from every direction).

The first time the drug pushers appeared, we rail passengers stared at them in horror and astonishment. But as time passed they have become as much a feature of the egress from Tara Street station as the Herald AM and Metro distributors. Even the tourists appear to subconsciously pick up the vibe that this is a normal Dublin streetscape.

So commonplace has this scene now become that one of these mornings I expect to open my bleary eyes 50 yards down the